Man is not able
Helpful
beginnings to church unity. We confess that #1. Sinful Man is not
able in mind, heart, body, nature, or will to love God, trust God,
please God, follow God, obey God, or prepare himself for such in any
form to any degree.; (What professing Christian wants to say rather
that: Man is able, after all I was able (...).
Helpful
beginnings to church unity. We confess that #2. The bible presents a
group of people called "the elect" whom God elected. Because Sinful
Man is not able in mind, heart, body, nature, or will to love God, trust
God, please God, follow God, obey God, or prepare himself for such in
any form to any degree--we confess that those whom God elects, and calls
the elect, were not elected by God because they the sinner met a
condition or command of God, be it the 613 commandments, the commandment
of repentance and faith in Christ, or any other condition or command.(What professing Christian
wants to say rather that: Man must meet a condition of God, before God
considers him elect, after all I was able to meet the condition of God
so that he considered me elect on the basis of meeting His condition.)
Helpful beginnings to church unity. We confess that #3. The bible presents the grace of God as that which is a working of the divine sovereign effectual power of God the Holy Spirit and is the effectual and sole cause of a sinners new birth, repentance, faith, changed: mind, heart, nature, will, and body.